Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 68
Then two servants came in rich livery and carried the Fir Tree into a large and splendid drawing-room.
Who acts: two servants · What happens: come, carry · To what, where: rich livery, Fir Tree, large drawing room
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two servants), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 servants | nummod |
| 3 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 livery | case |
| 6 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 livery | amod |
| 7 | livery | livery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 carried | cc |
| 9 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Tree | det |
| 11 | Fir | Fir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Tree | compound |
| 12 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 carried | obj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 room | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 room | det |
| 15 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 room | amod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 splendid | cc |
| 17 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 large | conj |
| 18 | drawing | drawing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 room | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 drawing | punct |
| 20 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carried | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | two servants | rich livery | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in livery=Location | |||
| 2 | carry | past | two servants not said here | the Fir Tree | a large drawing room | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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